Bonus question: what email inbox client do you use?
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Protonmail, it’s fantastic. Sleek design, solid feature set, integrates with Thunderbird if you want to use that.
Fastmail, 100%. Reasons:
- “Encrypted email” only works between encrypted providers. ProtonMail and Tutanota are both very inconvenient, and all I want is an email that’s not scanned for marketing.
- Since 2018, ProtonMail kept getting worse, especially with the recent AI stuff. Dodged bullet, IMO.
- $6/month = Custom domains, and any amount of emails under those domains. I can send and receive from any domain
xxx@yyy [dot] lynndotpy [dot] dev, for example. - CalDav and CardDav provider = Contacts, calendar, and reminders sync. Works perfectly on iOS too, if you like that.
It replaced my finnicky NextCloud for half the cost.
You forgot the Fastmail killer feature. Masked email addresses.
I might have to change my provider. Paying the same with a worse featureset.
I used to pay for Gmail, then I used Proton Mail about a year, and I’ve been using Fastmail for the last couple of years, which I recommend. I don’t know of anything that’s as feature-rich and easy to use as Fastmail. You may not be interested in all those fancy features, though.
I use MacOS/iOS Mail clients, but also Thunderbird as I’m trying to wean myself off of Apple’s ecosystem and onto Linux/FOSS.
Posteo. Happy with them. For client, gnus in Emacs. Have it configured to do Autocrypt too, but almost nobody else on the planet does 🙁
I also use posteo for four or five years now. Really happy and never had any issues so far.
Can vouch for Posteo. I’ve been using them for years and I have no reason to switch anytime soon. They’re privacy focused, the price is great, there’s IMAP support and CalDAV too and a bunch of other things.
Mailbox.org with my own custom domain (firstname@surname.co.uk) and Thunderbird for an email client.
I would highly recommend it. It is cheap and includes almost a complete replacement for Google services (email, contacts, calendar, online drive, etc).
Please consider your privacy. Giving all you emails to Google (or other mainstream data harvesters) basically gives them deep info about your whole life (purchases, travel, communication…everything).
Having a custom domain let’s you go to any provider you like if you want to switch.
Tuta. It’s great but no third-party client support.
Proton for personal email. Not immediately needing to escape but once my free email runs out of storage I plan to switch to something else because of the concerns raised by the incident with the French climate activist.
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Zoho, because it’s email server is free to use for custom domain adresses
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Ionos.
Too lazy to selfhost. Also the implications of self hosting and securing email is too cumbersome to sleep well at night.
But I do self host non-important to my living at home.Edit:
Inbox: Outlook. Tried eM-Client but it was worse than Outlook (around 2018 or 19)Mxroute with thunderbird as a client and mail on iOS for mobile.
Unlimited domains and rock solid. Just don’t expect lots of hand holding the company focuses on making email work you have to sort out your own details. That being said they have good documentation.
2nd Mxroute. I got the black Friday deal a few years ago. I love using the catchall to make emails on the fly for when I sign up for different services.
I do exactly the same thing. Some more spam from time to time but usually thunderbird catches that for me.
Purely Mail, yes; so long as you’re comfortable with one guy running the service.
Thunderbird for desktop and K-9 for Andriod. Only because they were the most recommended and completely fit my needs.
Haven’t had any issues with purely mail myself. I really like it
Purely Mail has been a good experience for me so far.
I agree, Purely Mail is great and cheap. Very cheap (I’m always afraid he’s going to increase the price)
The owner is kind and professional, but he’s alone, that’s the only downside.
But if you use your own domain and you keep a backup of your messages, there’s no need to worry about the one-man show.
Gmail.
No.
Tuta, wouldn’t really recommend it since I can’t use it with Thunderbird or as an SMTP server
I tried Tuta but it felt a bit clumsy. Proton feels like it has a better UX.
